About This Book

From an award-winning author comes a concise, dramatic, and moving history of the ongoing struggle of African-Americans for education rights. From Colonial times to the groundbreaking case of Brown v. the Board of Education and up to the present, Haskins describes the shocking history of black education and asserts that the future will determine how to deal with America's essentially separate but unequal schools. “The facts speak volumes.” — Booklist

About the Authors or Illustrators

JIM HASKINS has written more than ninety books for young readers, including Diary of a Harlem School Teacher; his collaboration with Rosa Parks on her autobiography, Rosa Parks: My Story; The Harlem Renaissance; and Black Eagles: African Americans in Aviation. He is Professor of English at the University of Florida, Gainesville, and winner of numerous award...